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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

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Artefactual evidence

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Recording artefacts in situ

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental reconstruction

Crafts

Conferences

Experimental Archaeology

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Comparing excavated sites

Just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)